Wednesday, March 12, 2014

I will Spend my Last Blood to Fight for Anglophones-Fru Ndi

By Fai Cassian Ndi

Fru Ndi addressing the crowd at Mbot Palace

The chairman of the leading opposition
in Cameroon has declared that he will spend the last blood of his life to fight
for the Anglophones. Ni John Fru Ndi, chairman of the Social Democratic
Front-SDF made the declaration on March 10, 2014 while addressing over 5000
Wimbum people at the Mbot Palace. Ni John Fru Ndi who was at Mbot Palace, Donga
Mantung to pay homage to the departed Warr Clan head and also welcome to the
seated Fon Mbunwe II also used the opportunity to extend a hand of fellowship
to the Southern Cameroons National Council-SCNC, arguing that the time to press
Biya for Constitutional Review is Now. “We will press from all the angles” he
continued. Harping on the need for constitutional review SDF National chairman
said that when the SDF requested for a federal system of governance in
Cameroon, Biya looked the other way round and flashed the country with
decentralization which today has been unable to move a step. According to Ni John Fru Ndi, the peace that
Cameroonians have enjoyed for the past 53 years is thanks to the Anglophones
given all French colonies Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Egypt, etc, have
recorded chaos. Yet he emphasized that dark clouds hang over Cameroon.

On the fiftieth anniversary celebration
of reunification, SDF Chieftain lamented that what he saw in Buea was a
disgrace to the dignity of those fought for the reunification of Cameroon. He
said he was shocked and flabbergasted that the heroes of reunification like
Amadou Ahidjo, JN Foncha, ST Muna, Endeley, JT Ndzi (citing a long list of
names) were all ignored and unfortunately “nameless”. ”Not even one effigy of
them was displayed during the march-pass”, he continued. Ni John also narrated
a scenario how Presidential guards wanted to scan him before he could enter
into the grandstand. He revealed that the Biya regime is so panicking to the
point that they are even afraid of telephones. “They even asked me whether I
was having a phone on me. When I say yes, they requested that I should give
them. I gave and they latter gave it back. You see the regime is so shaky that
they are even scared of telephones. I am not a security risk in this country”.
In actual fact, SDF Chieftain in a way was telling the population that there
was nothing in Buea that portrayed that Cameroonians were one nation and
indivisible. He said that he even rejected the seat reserved for given that
they wanted to bury him behind CERAC women. And more so, they reserved a room
that was synonymous to a toilet for him to stay the night and his private
secretary rejected. To cut it short, the fiftieth anniversary of reunification
to him was a sham that calls for an urgent need for the Anglophone dignity to
be recognized constitutionally or else he would spend the last blood of his
life to fight for it.

It should be recalled that in 2011, Fru
Ndi in an outburst at the Supreme after all petitions on the irregularities of
that year’s Presidential elections were rejected reminded Alex Dipanda Mouelle
that what was transpiring was not what was agreed in 1961.

On the September 30, 2013 local
elections, SDF chairman said he felt very sorry and disappointed that in Donga
Mantung some people reduced themselves to selling their consciences for 500
FCFA, 1000 FCFA and 2000 FCFA. “When somebody steals my item, I do not run
after him fighting, I only sit and observed to see what he/she will do with the
stolen item”. He reiterated that SDF militants should not wept over the stolen
Nkambe council rather they should sit and observe at what those who stole it
obnoxiously will do with it.

To the Mbot people, Fru Ndi the fon
disappeared like a pupa and resurfaced back in the throne like a butterfly and
he applauded them for that. He told Fon Mbunwe II that his reign should be that
of plenty and prosperity. “I am admired your tradition and that is why every
time I go for a cry-die I would fire my gun. It is part of our tradition and I
think anyone who wants to destroy this tradition will have to destroy me
first”, he hammered.

On his part Hon. Awudu Mbaya thanked the
SDF chieftain for the homage paid to the people of Warr. He said that Ni John
Fru Ndi has not only raised him but the entire Wimbum people given that he is
Questor at the National Assembly. Hon. Awudu also thanked SDF National chairman
for the fight he took for part of the ring road to be tarred. “Your Excellency,
I was lucky to be present when you told President Biya that he promised tarring
this road and he said he will do it. And you even questioned where he was going
to get the money given that nothing was mentioned in the tarring of the ring
road in the budget”. Hon. Awudu said that even though construction work has not
reached Donga Mantung, the fact that the tarring is getting to Kumbo is already
a great deal to the people of Donga Mantung Division. Harping on the September
30, Twin elections, he lamented how people stormed Nkambe to buy peoples’
consciences with money and how cards were printed and shared. To Hon. Awudu,
the elections were a masquerade of the highest order with the complicity of
elections Cameroon. This, he said could easily be detected from the conflicting
figures, such as the difference in the total number of registered voters for
municipal and legislative election result sheets, in polling stations with
out-numbered voters etc.

Mangoh Jones Tanko, former mayor of Nkambe
said that the Mbot people had long fallen in love with the SDF but during last
year’s election, some people refused registering. Out of the potential 7500
voters, only about 2000 voters registered. “It means that there was something
wrong going on” he insisted. He said that politics has made people to be so
hopeless that they went as far as buying votes.

HRH Fon Mbunwe was disturbed at the
manner at which traditional rulers have entered into partisan politics.

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